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This CEO runs a startup that helps people design their dream home see the beautiful space where

Launched in 2014, the digital decorating platform aims to make the interior design process easier for clients by moving almost everything online. After being paired with a designer, customers can purchase furniture and decor from hundreds of vendors on the Laurel & Wolf site.

This Election Will Determine the Fate of Libraries

Imagine waking up one day to a targeted smear campaign insinuating that you, a school librarian, are advocating the teaching of anal sex to 11-year-olds. This is exactly what happened to me in 2022 after I gave an innocuous speech about censorship at my local public library board meeting. As a 44-year resident and mother

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Review: Blazing Action Delights Get Marred by Langui

While Soi Cheang's action film often flounders, it recreates '80s Hong Kong iconography with visual splendor. Unfolding in the cramped corridors of Hong Kongs Kowloon Walled City (it was one of the most dangerously dense urban areas on Earth before being demolished in 1993), Soi Cheangs 80s-set Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In delivers

What Competitive Eating Does To the Body

This Independence Day, competitors at Nathans Famous hot dog eating contest may gulp down as many as 76 wieners in about the time it takes to read this article. Like ultramarathoners hoofing 50 miles or football players shaking off big hits, speed-eating entails natural resilience, dedicated training, and serious risks to health.

What Happened on May 6

Samuel Pierpont Langley flies his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River, USA. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile - ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.